The Islamic Understanding of Death and ResurrectionThis book provides a thorough and accessible guide to belief about the afterlife in the Sunni Muslim tradition. Drawing on the Qur'an, traditions, creeds, and theological commentaries, as well as interviews with Muslim clerics, the authors offer an overview of the Islamic eschatological narrative, describing the understanding of events beginning with the death of the individual and ending with habitation in the final abodes of recompense. |
Contents
Considerations of God Man Time and Eternity | 1 |
From Death to Resurrection Classical Islam | 31 |
The Eschaton the Judgment and the Final Dispensation Classical Islam | 63 |
From Death to Resurrection Modern Islam | 99 |
The Eschaton the Judgment and the Final Dispensation Modern Islam | 127 |
Evidence of Afterlife Concerns the PreIslamic Arabia | 147 |
The Special Case of Women and Children in the Afterlife | 157 |
The Cult of Saints | 183 |
Glossary of Arabic Terms | 193 |
Notes | 197 |
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The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection Jane Idelman Smith,Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Limited preview - 2002 |
The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection Jane Idelman Smith,Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Limited preview - 2002 |
The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection Jane Idelman Smith,Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Limited preview - 2002 |
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